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WASHINGTON NAVY YARD -- 805 KIDDER BREESE SE
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Frequently Asked Questions
Of the thousands of questions the center receives during the year, these are the most common topics for queries:
- Abbreviations, Glossary of U.S. Naval Abbreviations, 1949
- Abbreviations Used for Navy Enlisted Ratings, 1970
- Aces, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps
- African Americans and the U. S. Navy
- Aircraft Carriers, historical data on
- Aircraft in current Naval Aviation Inventory; photos, data and drawings
- Aircraft in current Naval Aviation Inventory; squadrons that fly them
- Aircraft Drawings
- Aircraft Markings, U.S. Navy
- Alabama, CSS
- Alligator, USS
- Alcohol in the Navy
- Alphabet, Phoenetic, and Signal Flags
- The U.S. Navy and the Amistad
- Armed Guard, Naval
- Astronauts, Chronology of Space Mission involving Navy and Marine Corps, 1961- April 1981
- Aviation Insignia, Places that Sell Aviation Patches
- Aviation Squadron Lineages
- Awards and Medals
- Ball Caps
- Battle Streamers, U.S. Navy
- Bells on Ships
- Bermuda Triangle
- Bibliography Series
- Biographies of Navy personnel
- Birthday of the U.S. Navy
- Birthplace of the U.S. Navy
- Book Dealers
- Boxer Rebellion, China 1900-1901
- Brashear, Carl, Master Chief Boatswain's Mate
- "Brass Monkey"
- "Bravo Zulu"
- Burial at Sea
- Casualties: U.S. Navy, Coast Guard Vessels, Sunk or Damaged Beyond Repair in War
- Casualties: U.S. Navy Ships Lost in Selected Storm/Weather Related Incidents
- Casualties: U. S. Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Wounded in wars, conflicts and incidents with hostile forces 1775-present
- Casualties, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Personnel, World War II
- Certificates for Crossing the Line, Plank Owners,and Other Unoffical Ceremonies
- Chief of Naval Operations, list of officers serving as
- Chief Petty Officer
- Christening, Launching, and Commissioning of U. S. Navy Ships
- Code Talkers, World War II
- Code Words, World War II
- Combat Demolition Units
- Commissioning Pennant
- Conflicts involving U.S. Navy
- Constitution, USS
- Crew Member Information
- Crossing the Line, Certificates, Documents, Eyewitness Accounts
- Crossroads, Atomic Tests at Bikini in 1946
- Cruise Books
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- Customs and Traditions: a bibliography
- D-Day, the Normandy Invasion, 6-25 June 1944
- Dates in Naval History
- Decatur, Stephen
- Deck Logs of Navy Ships
- Destroyers Transferred to Great Britain under Destroyer for Bases Agreement
- Dining In/Dining Out
- Diving in the U.S. Navy; a Brief History
- Documents, Historic, Relating to U.S. Navy
- "Dog Tags," Personal Indentification Tags
- Earhart, Amelia
- Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Navy General Order No. 4
- Exercise Tiger, Normandy Training Exercise
- Exploration/Expeditions
- Family Members Serving Together at Sea
- Father of the U.S. Navy
- Flag, U.S. Navy
- Flags and Pennants, Information on U.S. Navy Use of
- Fleet Admirals
- Flight 19, Loss of
- "Frocking" of Naval Personnel
- German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. During World War II
- Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury, Oct-Nov 1983
- Great White Fleet
- Honors to President George Washington
- Humanitarian
- H.L. Hunley, submerged wreck of
- Hurricanes and Typhoons: The Effect of Cyclonic Winds on U.S. Naval Operations.
- Hymn, Navy, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save,"
- Iwo Jima Flag Raising .
- Indianapolis, USS, (CA-35); Loss of, 30 July 1945
- Jones, John Paul
- Kosovo: U.S. Navy Lessons Learned During Operation Allied Force, 1999
- Maine, USS, Sinking of, 1898
- Manila Bay, Battle of, 1 May 1898
- Marine Corps Historical Center
- Medals, Campaign and Service
- Medal of Honor, Navy & Marine Corps Recipients
- Merchant Ships and Merchant Mariners during World War II -Research Sources
- Merchant Ship Photography
- Midway, Battle of, 4-7 June 1942
- Military Goods Dealers
- Miller, Doris "Dorie" Pearl Harbor hero
- Motion Picture Information
- National Security and Military History: Research Guide
- Native Americans in the U.S. Navy
- Navy Cross
- Navy Department, Establishment of the
- Navy Numbers (FPO) World War II to disguise mail addresses
- NC-4, The First Flight Across the Atlantic
- Normandy Invasion, 6-25 June 1944
- Nuclear Testing
- Nurses in the U.S. Navy:
- Officers, Famous in the U.S. Navy, 1794-1815, Select Reading List
- Official Service and Medical Records
- Operation Tiger, Normandy Training Exercise
- Oral History: A Guide for Conducting Naval Historical Interviews
- Oral History: Creating a Personal Memoir of Your Naval Service
- Oral History: Recollections of World War II Experiences
- Patches, Navy: A Select Bibliography
- Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
- Persian Gulf, U.S. Navy and the
- Personal Indentification Tags, "Dog Tags"
- Personal Memoir, How to Create
- Personnel Records: Service and Medical
- Personnel Strength of the Navy 1775-present
- Philadelphia Experiment
- Photography, U.S. Navy
- Photographers, Commercial
- Plank Owners
- Pirate, USS, (AM-275); Loss of, 12 Oct 1950
- Port Chicago Naval Magazine Explosion, 17 July 1944
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Claims
- Precedence of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps
- Presidents who Served in the U.S. Navy
- Presidential Ship Visits
- Prisoners of War, World War II
- Proximity Fuse
- PT Boats: Information and a Select Bibliography
- Q-Ships (anti-submarine vessels disguised as merchant ships)
- Quonset Huts
- Ratings (Jobs) of Enlisted Personnel in the U.S. Navy
- Recipes, Navy
- Regulations, historic naval
- Researchers, Commercial
- Reunion Sources
- Reunion-Veteran Organizations
- "Rocks and Shoals"
- USS Scorpion, USS, (SSN-589); Lost on 22 May 1968
- S-33, USS, (SS-138)
- Seabees, History of Naval Construction Battalions
- Seal, U.S. Navy
- Secretary of the Navy, Individuals serving as
- Ship's Bell
- Shipboard Life in the 19th Century
- Ship Force Levels, 1886-present
- Ships: Launching and Commissioning
- Ships, U.S. Navy: Histories
- Ships, U.S. Navy: Lost and Damaged in Action during Wars
- Ships: U.S. Navy: Lost in Selected Storm/Weather Related Incidents
- Ships, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard: Lost or Damaged Beyond Repair during World War II
- Ship Naming in the United States Navy
- Ship Plans
- Ship Study, Sources
- Ships' Deck Logs
- Ships' Patches
- Signal Flags
- Somers, brig, 1842
- Squalus, USS (SS-192): The Sinking, Rescue of Survivors, and Subsequent Salvage, 1939
- Submarine Battle Flags of World War II
- Submarines, U.S. Navy: Losses, Selected Accidents, and Selected Incidents of Damage Resulting from Enemy Action
- Submerged Aircraft and Ships; Navy Department Policy
- Sullivan Brothers
- 21-gun Salute
- Tecumseh, USS
- Terrorism, Research Guide
- Thresher, USS, (SSN-593); lost on 10 April 1963
- Titanic, RMS
- Tokyo Bay Surrender Ceremony, 2 September 1945
- Tonkin Gulf, Crisis, August 1964
- Tulip, USS
- Typhoons and Hurricanes: The Effect of Cyclonic Winds on U.S. Naval Operations
- U-2 and Aircraft Carrier Deployment
- U-505, Capture of
- U-571
- U-1105, submerged wreck of
- UFO Research Guide
- Uniforms, naval
- VT Fuze or Radio Proximity Fuze
- Wars and Conflicts of the U.S. Navy
- Washington, George, Honors to the President
- Washington Navy Yard history
- Weather Related Incidents
- What a Navy Command should do if it is going to be disestablished, deactivated or decommissioned?
- Women in the U.S. Navy
- Z-Grams
- Zumwalt, Elmo Jr., Admiral
11 August 2004